Post a Comment. He could not have been more correct. Spoiler alert for those who did not yet see the season finale on March 23 or the series at all.
Go to Crave TV and catch up and what you missed. During the first season and the first eight episodes of season two Pla, as Sergeant Julien Houle, came across as a likeable and trustworthy character. He was the one keeping the officers in order, giving briefings and determining who teamed with whom. From the get go Chartier arrived on the scene he was working undercover for the Quebec Provincial Police, trying to uncover a "mole" at the station.
Barron was the prime suspect, up until episode eight when in a shocking turn of events Houle was fingered as the double crosser. Adding to the darkness of the plot, Houle was exposed as a pedophile who was clearly being blackmailed to rat on his fellow officers in order to keep his dirty little secret safe.
A credit to the producers. The "pedophile" sequences were all done in very good taste given the disturbing subject matter. When Houle goes to a hotel and has no more than 12 year old prostitute join him he refuses to touch her and flees the scene.
At the conclusion of the finale he calls Barron and Chartier to a remote location, hoping they will shoot him.. Barron refuses to his dirty work and the last scene Pla turns the gun on himself. As an actor, this may of been Pla's finest moment. I am sorry that the producers chose to make him the mole for we won't see him again on this fine drama. I spoke to Pla today about this challenging storyline. They said maybe not. When we started shooting season two, they still had not decided.
